In this article, I'll show you how to create a new an Acy Mailing 5 newsletter.
Access to Acy Mailing 5
This screen is accessible via the administration area: Select Components → Acy Mailing 5 → Newsletters from the drop-down menus.
Creating a new newsletter
When you land on the newsletters page, you will see a list of previous newsletters created and sent. By default the list is ordered most recent at the top of the list.
To create a new newsletter, click New along the top right of the menus. The next steps is critical and must occur before completing any further actions. Otherwise, you risk losing information if you make this change later. Ask yourself, what type of newsletter am I creating?
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Or something else
By default the Weekly Newsletter is shown. In the majority of situations, you will be either creating a weekly or monthly newsletter.
If you want to change the current newsletter, click Template. This action will pop-up a screen with a list of templates currently in the site. The most common templates are Weekly or Monthly. Click on the newsletter that you want to use. In this example, we will create a monthly newsletter. Subsequently, click on Monthly Newsletter.
Immediately, you will have noticed that the title has changed and a little out of view the body of the template has also changed.
Now you can begin to add the content of the newsletter.
Begin by adding the subject.
Next, scroll down the page and fill out the content in the HTML section. Unless you know what you doing, only make changes to the content and not the table borders of the template.
As you complete areas of the newsletter, remember to click the Save button. As sometimes if you leave your computer for some time, the site can request that you log back in and unfortunately the content you have added will be lost unless it is saved.
When you have completed the areas of the newsletter that you wanted to complete... next you will prepare to send it out the member base.